Blog of a course that allows students to learn how to use books, newspapers, magazines, journals, archives, databases, and the Internet to find and evaluate information on legendary creatures such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and other cryptids. It also encourages the developement of critical thinking skills to deal with extraordinary claims and ideas for thinking about them.

Friday, February 1, 2013

What the NOAA says about the existence of mermaids

This week, I decided to investigate Animal Planet's “documentary”
The Body Found since there is a lot of information about it online. I have watched a couple shows and I can see
why people are totally into it because the information seems pretty legit,
however I don’t think that The Body Found is a good source to reference. The
program prompted public inquiries to NOAA, (National Oceanic and Atmosphere
Administration) which more commonly deals with questions about weather, water
and solar storms. "But are mermaids real? No evidence of aquatic humanoids
has ever been found. Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of
nearly all seafaring peoples? That's a question best left to historians,
philosophers and anthropologists."